Buyer's Guide

Tomra’s Circular Economy Conference: Collaboration to “Close the Loop on Plastics”

According to calculations by the World Bank, approximately two-thirds of household waste is still incinerated or landfilled. In its 4th global conference, industry leaders joined Tomra, the Norwegian specialist for waste collection, sorting and recycling, to continue to set the course for sorting and recycling significantly more plastic from household waste

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New launch of the PET returnable bottle in Austria

Austria’s market leader in the mineral water market, Vöslauer Mineralwasser GmbH, is concretising its plans to relaunch the first and so far only PET returnable container in Austria. “In Austria, PET reusable containers were common until the 1990s, but they disappeared from the shelves completely due to a lack of demand.

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First products granted RecyClass Recycled Plastics Certification

RecyClass Recycled Plastics Traceability Certification was granted to first products covering both flexible and rigid, as well as food and non-food applications. The Certification attest the inclusion of recycled plastics in products containing between 10% to 100% of recycled content. With the growing pressure to demonstrate to consumers that products are genuinely

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Purchase of the company BTB PET-Recycling to give Alpla access to the bottle-to-bottle loop in Germany

The Alpla Group, the global packaging solutions and recycling specialist, is acquiring BTB PET-Recycling based in Bad Salzuflen. The company turns PET bottles into recycled material which is then predominantly used for the production of new beverage bottles. Its bottle-to-bottle packaging cycle is a closed loop. In acquiring BTB PET-Recycling GmbH

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Kirin and Lawson start a demonstration experiment of collecting PET bottles in Japan, boosting bottle-to-bottle recycling

Kirin Holdings Company Ltd, Kirin Beverage Company Ltd, and the retailer Lawson, Inc. started a demonstration experiment of collecting used PET bottle containers at the Japanese Lawson Yokohama-Shinkoyasu store, utilising the infrastructure of the two companies.The purpose of this initiative is to promote the recycling of PET bottles with the aim

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European technologies and projects for a global circular economy

Decarbonisation through comprehensive recycling and use of resources In July, PETplanet accepted two invitations from circular waste management expert and equipment manufacturer Tomra: On July 7, the company hosted a webcast on the topic of CO2 reduction and how climate change can be encouraged by comprehensively optimising waste management and recycling.

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Evian unveils 100% rPET bottles created by Loop Industries’ recycling technology

Evian has launched a new rPET prototype bottle using technology from clean technology company Loop Industries. As the demand for more sustainable packaging solutions continues to grow, Loop Industries states to offer a technology that allows no and low value PET plastics that would otherwise go to waste to be recycled

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Next Generation Recycling Maschinen GmbH relocates and size increases U.S. Customer Care Center

Next Generation Recycling Machines, Inc. is the sales and after sales organisation for Next Generation Recycling Maschinen GmbH (NGR) in the USA. From there North- and South American markets are being covered. The previous location north of Atlanta has been moved further south close to the International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia.

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